Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

This statue honors one of Budapest's most beloved literary characters.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

This quiet, unassuming spot in Budapest was the birthplace of the bloody 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

The world’s first statue of the late Apple co-founder.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

This quaint Hungarian railway system is operated exclusively by children between the ages of 10 and 14.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Legions of Roman soldiers bathed in this ancient spa complex under a Budapest transit station.